Beidou's 3rd generation makes splash

Satellite system finds sweet spot in rescue, transport applications

More than 40,000 fishing boats in China have been equipped with receivers tuned to China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System, to provide better search and rescue for ships in trouble, a Beidou expert said.

"Fishermen call the Beidou system their 'patron'," Yang Yuanxi, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and deputy chief designer of the system, said in an interview with China Daily during the 2018 World Transport Convention on Tuesday.